Elements Borrowed: On Charles Ricketts’ Reimagining of Russian Folk Tale
November 16th, 2020 The Dial’s co-editors Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon searched for ideas, inspiration, and material across time periods and cultures. …
‘Art for the sake of Art’- Then & Now
Through the analysis of Charles Ricketts’ and Charles Shannon’s – the editors of The Dial – intentions in producing the volume of the …
The Dial and its Obsession with Art
What really fascinated me about The Dial as a little magazine, is the incredible attention to detail. Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts …
I Spy With My Little Eye
Today’s discussion of intended audience got me thinking about the Modernist ideal of active reading. In Modernist literature, many writers purposefully leave …
Intertextuality in The Dial
The Dial was a counter-culture magazine first published in 1889. Very much created as art for art’s sake, the magazine was anti-capitalist, …
The Evergreen and Climate Change
The fact that The Evergreen promotes nature and the value and interconnectedness of the natural world as one of its main tenets …
Concept of Rebirth and Everlasting in ”The Evergreen A Northern Seasonal”
In the seasonally themed little magazine The Evergreen: A Nothern Seasonal, Winter, I found the concept of an everlasting piece of art really interesting. …
The artistic direction of the Evergreen
I loved seeing the Egyptian-stylized art in the fourth volume of The Evergreen. I went and looked at the book itself and found other …
The Evergreen and the Winter Season
This little magazine is the most ornamented that we have seen yet. It is so interesting to see how decorated the pages …
The Evergreen
In today’s class, we explored topics related to seasonal symbolism within the Evergreen periodical, most specifically symbolism related to the winter through …